Seven staff from the faculties of Engineering, Science, Business, and Creative Arts and Industries took part in a geospatial Field Basics training on campus last week. With the help of Ben Broad and Luke Johnson from Trimble’s Christchurch office, attendees used the industry-standard hardware listed below to collect geospatial survey data in Albert Park.

Hardware tools used (all included in the University of Auckland Trimble Technology Lab Gift.

  • SX12 Scanning Total Station
  • R2 GNSS Receiver
  • TSC5 Controller
  • TSC7 Controller
  • TDC600 Handheld

After data collection was complete, the group processed the collected data in Trimble Business Center on some of the 250 computers in the TTL itself. This gave attendees hands-on experience in the basic workflows enabled by the technology.

Trimble Business Center is Trimble’s flagship software package for transforming geospatial field data into actionable information, and is one of 14 pieces of software included in the TTL gift.